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摘要

For many marine organisms, the timing of egg hatching is key to species survival because the time window in which larvae can survive is very short. If eggs hatch too early, they starve before their food source - the spring phytoplankton - blooms. If they hatch too late, they also miss the bloom. I'm amazed by how often nature gets things right. In most of the North Atlantic, shrimp eggs hatch just a few days before the spring bloom. Peter Koeller of the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, showed that the development and hatching time of shrimp are influenced by local deep-ocean temperature.